Weather alerts in Minnesota, 2021
2,090 weather alerts in 2021, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,090
- Warnings
- 551
- Watches
- 118
- Advisories
- 465
- Busiest month
- August363 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 28, 202174 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,090 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Saint Louis County212
- Carlton County170
- Itasca County160
- Winona County137
- Lake County135
- Fillmore County129
- Olmsted County128
- Wabasha County124
- Houston County117
- Nobles County115
- Mower County114
- Koochiching County113
- Aitkin County112
- Polk County110
- Cass County109
- Murray County108
- Rock County108
- Freeborn County106
- Rice County106
- Dodge County105
- Cook County105
- Pipestone County101
- Dakota County101
- Steele County101
- Traverse County100
- Renville County100
- Chippewa County99
- Big Stone County98
- Stearns County98
- Kandiyohi County97
- Meeker County97
- Jackson County96
- Marshall County96
- Goodhue County96
- Swift County95
- Norman County95
- Cottonwood County94
- Le Sueur County94
- Redwood County93
- Lac qui Parle County92
47 more counties
- Pope County92
- Waseca County92
- Otter Tail County92
- Beltrami County92
- Stevens County91
- Blue Earth County90
- Mille Lacs County90
- Yellow Medicine County90
- Clay County90
- Wilkin County90
- Faribault County89
- Scott County89
- Grant County89
- Brown County88
- Morrison County88
- Nicollet County88
- Todd County88
- Washington County88
- Martin County87
- Red Lake County87
- Benton County86
- Douglas County86
- Sibley County86
- Pennington County85
- Lincoln County84
- Carver County84
- Kanabec County84
- Ramsey County84
- Watonwan County84
- Pine County84
- Lyon County83
- Anoka County82
- McLeod County82
- Wright County82
- Becker County82
- Mahnomen County82
- Chisago County80
- Hennepin County80
- Kittson County78
- Clearwater County77
- Crow Wing County76
- Roseau County76
- Hubbard County75
- Wadena County74
- Sherburne County73
- Isanti County72
- Lake of the Woods County69
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.